A mad world, my masters and other plays - Couverture souple

Middleton, Thomas

 
9780199555413: A mad world, my masters and other plays
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0199555419 ISBN 13 : 9780199555413
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) was a writer of great versatility, and his career as a London dramatist spans the most productive, innovative, and exciting period of theatrical activity in the history of English drama.

Best known for his tragedies, he also wrote many successful comedies of city life. This volume brings together the greatest among them: A Mad World, My Masters, Michaelmas Term, A Trick to Catch the Old One, and No Wit, No Help Like a Woman's. The first three plays, written between 1604 and 1606, are witty and rambunctious satires on the predatory life of the aspiring London citizen. Sex and money are the characters' obsessions; their caustic exposure Middleton's. In the later play, No Wit (1612), satire shades into romance, prose into verse. Together the four plays reveal the range and exuberance of Middleton's writing for the comic stage.

Under the General Editorship of Michael Cordner of the University of York, the plays have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation. In addition, there is a scholarly introduction and detailed annotation.
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À propos de l'auteur

Michael Taylor was Professor of English at the University of New Brunswick, Canada. He is now a freelance writer and editor.

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0199555419
ISBN 13 
9780199555413
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
416
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9780192834553: Mad World, My Masters and Other Plays

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ISBN 10 :  019283455X ISBN 13 :  9780192834553
Editeur : Oxford Paperbacks, 1998
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